Apr 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
(Agence France-Presse) A US army general responsible for operations in east Africa has been stripped of his command amid reports of sexual misconduct, a Pentagon official confirmed on Friday. Major General Ralph Baker, the commander of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, was relieved of his duties by the outgoing head of US Africa Command ...
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Apr 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JUDICIAL WATCH While the Obama administration insists the Mexican border is secure, a sophisticated airborne radar system created to track Islamic terrorists shows that less than half of the migrants and smugglers crossing into the United States get caught. This alarming security gap obviously means that the southern border is far from secure, but rather ...
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Apr 5, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TODD STARNES The U.S. Army listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania, Fox News has learned. “We find this offensive to have Evangelical Christians and the Catholic Church to be listed among known terrorist groups,” ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP — A soldier apprehended Thursday in Tennessee was charged with murder in the shooting death of a civilian employee at Kentucky's Fort Knox a day earlier. The FBI said in a court filing that Marquinta E. Jacobs fired a .45-caliber handgun at the victim, "striking him several times." Jacobs is charged with murder, ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE An Arizona veterans services official was fired and her boss resigned after she said women might be less suited for combat because of their menstrual cycles. Former state Rep. Terri Proud, hired as an administrative assistant with the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services, made the comment this week to the Arizona-Sonora News Service. “I ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from STRIPES KABUL — A U.S. fighter pilot was killed when his F-16 jet crashed late Wednesday near Bagram Air Field in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said. The plane was on its final approach to land after a routine air support mission around 11 p.m. when it lost contact with its wingman and the control ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON A fleet of Iranian warships returned home Thursday following a month long deployment in the Pacific Ocean. The naval operation shows a surprising amount of range for a navy that in recent months has crept further into international waters. An Iranian destroyer and helicopter carrier spent most of February in the Pacific Ocean, just ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIZPACREVIEW: Eddie Bryant, a disabled combat veteran who served in Iraq was asked to leave a skydiving site in Lake Wales, Florida because he refused to cover a tattoo that offended Muslim soldiers from Qatar. According to the vet’s blog — Adventures of a Broken Soldier — he is an avid skydiver with almost 300 ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal: After a high-visibility display of military power aimed at deterring North Korean provocations, the White House is dialing back the aggressive posture amid fears that it could inadvertently trigger an even deeper crisis, according to U.S. officials. The U.S. is putting a pause to what several officials described as a ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from Fox News: An Army civilian employee was killed in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in a parking lot outside Fort Knox's Human Resources Command headquarters in Kentucky. The victim, a human resources employee, was transported by ambulance to Ireland Army Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the Army said Wednesday night in a news ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WDRB -- An Army civilian employee is dead after a shooting incident that occurred Wednesday afternoon in a parking lot outside U.S. Army Human Resources Command headquarters at Fort Knox. The victim, who was an employee of U.S. Army Human Resources Command, was transported by ambulance to Ireland Army Community Hospital where he was pronounced ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: The only two women to participate in the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course (IOC) failed ongoing tests to determine which infantry positions should be available to women, according to the Marine Corps Times: The women failed the introductory Combat Endurance Test, a punishing test of physical strength and endurance, ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BBC NEWS: The US is moving an advanced missile system to the Pacific island of Guam as a precaution following threats by North Korea, the Pentagon has said. The Department of Defence said it would deploy the ballistic Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (Thaad) in the coming weeks. Pyongyang has threatened to target South Korea ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel tried to mollify worried military leaders Wednesday, speaking publicly for the first time about the Defense Department’s pressing budgetary woes. Widespread cuts to the defense budget have led DoD to impose furloughs on civilian employees, defer critical maintenance projects, and consider cutting benefits to military families. Military employees who ...
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Apr 3, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
"This wasn't 'workplace violence.' It was a terrorist act. He was performing his jihad." -- Fort Hood survivor. Excerpted from CNS NEWS - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says every American should be furious that four years after the mass shooting at Fort Hood, Major Nidal Hasan still has not been tried; and the Pentagon is ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from SCHNITT NEWS: Tampa – A man living in New Port Richey, Florida, phoned into the nationally syndicated Schnitt Show after he was dismissed from nursing school, all because of a gun app on his smart phone. During a routine break in a five-hour long sociology class at the Ultimate Medical Academy in Tampa, 33-year ...
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